As the gong ran out, the fifteen-year-old jumped off her pedestal. She only had finding the twins in mind, but she knew it was better to go to the Cornucopia. As she ran forward, she picked up a sword and kept going.

There was a spear a few feet away from her on the edge of the most. Amber wasn't too bad at that in training, she mused. No doubt she and Onyx both scampered off. Surely they wouldn't be so stupid as to stick around the cornucopia, or go to the castle.

She picked up the spear and jumped into the moat. She was okay at swimming one handedly. The water wasn't too deep. She was lucky to have been trained in Two. She reached to grab a waterproof bag, but she was cut off by a sword that almost sliced of her fingers.

She threw her spear onto dry land and grabbed a sword behind her. She jumped back onto land and struck at her assailant, the idiot from Four.

They battled. He would strike. She would block. Her intention wasn't to kill, but maim. It was hard, knowing he was trying to actually kill her. She refused to die in the bloodbath. She wasn't planning on winning, but the bloodbath wasn't dignified. It was too easily forgotten. Too early. Not the death of a Career and definitely not a Ramirez.

She knocked him to the ground with the flat of her sword, picked the spear back up and ran halfway around the cornucopia, only stopping to pick up a bow and sling the quiver onto her back. She held the spear in one hand and the bow and sword in the other.

Ocean was in pursuit, and Drucilla didn't have time to think when she found Amber just standing there. What was she doing?

She had no idea where her brother was, but Drucilla didn't have the time to search around the chaotic bloodbath going on around her. Ocean was in hot pursuit. Drucilla cursed and grabbed the other girl by the wrist.

Amber started to protest. "But my brother—"

Drucilla gritted her teeth. She couldn't stay and figure out wherever the boy was and go retrieve him! If she did that it was likely all three of them would be dead. Ocean was right behind her.

She spoke with a steely voice. "If he's still alive he'll come find us. I only just managed to get away from that douchenozzle from Four. I don't have time to find both of you. Come on." Amber shot a look in a random direction. Drucilla wondered what the boy was doing. If he was fighting someone like that prissy girl from One he was likely already dead, and Drucilla had a suspicion.

She refused to let Amber be killed too.

Otherwise there would be no point in fighting anymore. This little, but older, girl deserved to go home. More so than Drucilla. It wasn't like she really had a home to go back to. Her father no doubt would disown her and ban Masen from her sight. Probably make up stuff to tell him so he would hate her.

And Elda? Who knew what she was going to do. She was confusing Drucilla enough as it was.

Amber whispered something that Drucilla pretended not to hear, though she heard the words clearly. They would haunt her for days after. She wandered into the forest. Amber followed her closely.

"Why didn't you let me go back for my brother?" Amber accused as Drucilla gave her the spear.

"I wanted to let both of you come with me, but Ocean was chasing me, I told you this already. I didn't have enough time to waste to go find him and I didn't need you two brought into the mess I created with the Careers." Drucilla sighed. She turned away from the other girl and slashed at the vines in front of her, once again pretending not to her Amber as she mumbled something.

So Onyx had gotten himself mixed up with a Career? It must have been Ruby, Drucilla deduced. And if it was her that had been fighting with him than he was already dead.

She wasn't going to mention this to Amber. She'd see it in the sky soon enough.

Later, after walking in silence for a while, the cannons started to fire, and Drucilla, trained as she was, didn't even really need to count them. Her subconscious did it for her.

13. One of them was likely Onyx.

Thirteen on the first day? That wasn't good. Drucilla was worried. She couldn't remember any deaths from the bloodbath particularly, but if there was thirteen dead than Ruby, Marina, Marble, and Draco were definite contenders. She expected as much from Draco and Ruby. She didn't particularly like Marble but he wasn't batshit crazy like Ocean, Ruby, and Draco. Marina she wasn't too sure about.

The girl from 7 was a possibility too. The boy was scrawny, only thirteen. Likely dead, unless he got away from the cornucopia. He'd only gotten a four in training. Nothing too special.

When the anthem blasted, Drucilla looked up to see if her suspicions were correct. Ruby, Marble, and Draco were alive. The tributes from three were gone, same with the boy from five. The girl had gotten a two in training out of all things, and Drucilla raised an eyebrow. Was she trying to Johanna Mason it? She could have made it less obvious.

Marina was alive, at least. Her presence might somehow make the Careers like crazy. The kids from six and the thirteen-year-old were dead. Jada was alive. What had happened to her? The girls from nine and ten, Rosaline and Adelaide were still alive.

She could feel Amber fidget from next to her. The grotto Drucilla had found wasn't very big. In fact, it was almost too small to fit two teenagers. When the girl from eleven's photo came up, Amber turned into Drucilla's shirt. Drucilla realized that Amber had realized it too.

She let her yell into the cloth, figuring it was better than allowing her to reveal their location. She started to rub circles into the other's back, on the verge of cursing out the Capitol for letting an innocent family suffer.